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Learned borrowing from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, “street”). Doublet of piazza.

  • IPA(key): /plaˈtɛ.a/
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Hyphenation: pla‧tè‧a

platea f (plural platee)

  1. stall/orchestra seat (a seat in a theatre/theater close to the stage)
  2. (by extension) audience
    Synonym: pubblico

From Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”).

platēa f (genitive platēae); first declension

  1. broad way, street
  2. open space, area, courtyard

First-declension noun.

platea

  1. Alternative of platalea, the spoonbill
  • “platea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “platea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "platea", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • platea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “platea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “platea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • IPA(key): /plaˈtea/ [plaˈt̪e.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: pla‧te‧a

Learned borrowing from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, “street”). Doublet of plaza.

platea f (plural plateas)

  1. stalls/orchestra seats (of a theatre)

platea

  1. inflection of platear:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative